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by stult 5d ago
Humanity might be able to, humans cannot
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by stult 2mo ago
I'm shocked Netflix hasn't just settled to keep this quiet, because the entire situation makes them look not only like an abusive, discriminatory employer but even worse, horrifically incompetent at being abusive and discriminator
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by stult 2mo ago
You can't have an HR policy that discriminates against people for receiving mental health treatment from a physician, that is plainly illegal under multiple statutes both federally and in the state of California. This was not a situati
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by stult 2mo ago
Yes, it seems likely they violated California's Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) based on the details I have seen so far. The EEOC’s mental-health guidance states both that an
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by stult 2mo ago
That is a hopelessly naive description of lobbying, to the point that I assume you are being intentionally disingenuous. Lobbyists commonly funnel money to politicians via fundraiser bundling, donations to outside spenders like PACs, and ot
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by stult 2mo ago
I stopped cooking with nonstick pans over 15 years ago, and the only thing I've found that can consistently be a bit tricky is eggs, but really only if the pan isn't hot enough yet when you add the butter or oil, you don't us
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by stult 2mo ago
I don't get why decoupling insurance from employment isn't a bigger part of the healthcare reform discourse. It's the most obvious, easiest, lowest hanging fruit for improving the US healthcare system, and almost uniquely pol
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by stult 2mo ago
Every other country is responsible. But in proportion to their wealth and power, and the US is far and away the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world so we bear an outsized share of the responsibility for keeping the world sta
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by stult 3mo ago
> A similar dilemma faces PACER. Overwhelmingly, PACER is used by attorneys, who are generally well-compensated professionals with a whole host of protectionist policies insulating them from market forces. One of those protectionist poli
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by stult 3mo ago
This analysis is almost bafflingly stupid. They conflate domain expertise with coding expertise, and then assess that people with domain expertise demonstrate great success at coding tasks, which suggests coding agents are so good at writin
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by stult 3mo ago
Literally does not work for me at all, just keeps reloading and spinning. I'm not even on my VPN. Really frustrating dealing with these things lately.
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by stult 3mo ago
Man, I really freaking hate cloudflare bot checks. I can't even access this site, which I presume is just a few kilobytes of simple static HTML with some straightforward text content. I shouldn't have to work this hard to prove I&
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by stult 3mo ago
That's not true. ITAR and security clearance are entirely separate regulatory regimes. For ITAR purposes, being a permanent resident is good enough. I used to work for a defense contractor, and we hired plenty of green card holders. Th
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by stult 3mo ago
Troops is almost exclusively used to refer to Army personnel in the US.
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by stult 3mo ago
I think warfighter crept into the lexicon for somewhat understandable reasons, likely because of the increasing frequency of joint operations (i.e., operations involving more than one branch of the military working together) after Vietnam,
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by stult 3mo ago
> - Do we have reasons to care about LOC in a world where we don't write code manually? What happens to token usage numbers when the codebase is significantly larger? Yes, at least to the extent that we care about context windows an
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by stult 4mo ago
I'm not sure about that, I actually think planning may be just as important in both domains. Outlining before drafting is an almost universal best practice in legal writing that is drilled into law students to the point that outlining
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by stult 4mo ago
I could not agree more. A simple example: it boggles my mind how every state organizes their statutes in entirely dissimilar ways. I'm not sure there's a need for every state to have slightly different wording for a murder statute
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by stult 4mo ago
I would agree with this point and as I explained in a comment replying to the GP comment above, that atrophy is far more dangerous in the legal field than it is with code because legal documents do not benefit from the structural safeguards
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by stult 4mo ago
IME so far (as both a lawyer and a software engineer), LLM error rates when drafting code and legal documents are reasonably comparable, but it's more problematic in the legal context because legal documents do not benefit from many of
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by stult 4mo ago
That's not true at all. Modern legal education has focused on plain English drafting and avoidance of arcane jargon precisely to make legal documents comprehensible to non-specialists. There are almost no situations where legal draftin
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by stult 4mo ago
The R&D tax credit change actually took effect in 2022, and one of the few good things Trump's BBB did was reverse it
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by stult 4mo ago
I think that study is the wrong framing of the problem for identifying economic returns on AI. We don't need AI to complete tasks perfectly, just to be able to generate a good enough approximation that is easy to review and correct suc
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by stult 4mo ago
That's an asinine comparison that completely ignores the underlying economic substance of the transaction. You can't pay yourself fees from a mortgage.
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by stult 4mo ago
Weirdly the CIA actually does require case officers to get signed receipts from their assets for payments. Whether they verify the signatures is another question...
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by stult 4mo ago
You're assuming the price won't come down as the tech matures. That seems like a big assumption, considering how quickly open weights models are catching up to frontier models, and how little effort has been invested so far in opt
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by stult 4mo ago
It's a declaration that corporate America intends to impose all the costs of AI on individuals. Cloudflare could have retrained people, found new roles for them, etc. Instead it is throwing them to the wolves. It used to be unacceptabl
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by stult 4mo ago
Bad facts make for bad law
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by stult 4mo ago
Yes, exactly, there's a reason the term is "continuum of care." There is no one-size-fits-all approach to solving addiction because, to quote Ted Lasso, all people are different people. Maybe some people do need to be involun
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by stult 5mo ago
Agreed, and further, I'd argue the OP's division of LLM instructions into either process or outcome specification is a false dichotomy. My agentic process specification is about automatically specifying the outcomes that I would o

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